Children Of Columbine Endure Their Second Mass Killing

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-23/children-of-columbine-endure-their-second-mass-killing.html

Samuel Granillo, who survived the Columbine High School massacre by holding a door shut with his feet, recently shared a peach beer with Alex Teves.

Days later, Teves, a 24-year-old who graduated in June from the University of Denver with a master’s in counseling psychology, died with 11 others in a shooting rampage during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Fifty-eight were wounded and nine remain in critical condition.

“It hurts being kicked this many times in one life,” said Granillo, a 30-year-old filmmaker making a documentary on the April 20, 1999, Columbine shooting in which 15 died, including the attackers. Granillo escaped injury by blocking the office door as the killers tried repeatedly over three hours to enter.

When today’s flowers wilt, the candles burn to waxen pools and the memorial balloons deflate, Colorado must confront the aftermath of the state’s second mass killing in 13 years, one that binds succeeding generations of teenagers in a shared experience of violence. Public officials, students and parents who endured the first massacre said how the community responds is intricately connected with how it heals.

[CTyankee]

1. appalling. I am speechless...

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2. k&r

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3. k/r

[Solly Mack]

4. :(